21st Century Learning

Coburn Primary School is committed to providing students with the skills necessary for the future- including the use of digital technology in our everyday living, communication and work. In the Infant area (Prep to Two) grades have access to class sets of iPads to use for Literacy, Numeracy and Inquiry Learning. Students are explicitly taught skills and appropriate use of digital devices.

From Grade Three, students are encouraged to join the “BYOD – Bring Your Own Device” iPad program where their digital learning can extend beyond the daily school hours. Students are encouraged to digitally create a wide variety of work, including iMovie, graphic design through Pic Collage, and presentations through Keynote and Explain Everything for example. Students Air Drop work to each other and their teachers and submit their work through the paperless classroom of Showbie.

Each Coburn student has an account with Mathletics and Reading Eggs to practise their skills at home and these apps work on both PC and iPad. They access their individual google email as an alternative to send their work to their teachers and use this email to store their work on Google Drive as well as to access online collaborative apps such as Google Docs and Forms.

Underpinning our digital learning journey is our desire to teach students on how to be safe online and our partnership with eSmart offers support for educating students and provides them with strategies and tools for making their way through the online world of the internet.

Bring Your Own Devise (BYOD)

Coburn Primary School “Bring your own device - one to one iPad” program affords the opportunity for our students to enter a new world of curriculum possibilities, allowing engagement and involvement in their learning. Learning experiences across the school are purposefully designed to develop the attributes of a life-long learner. In this way, each student learns to develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, practices and attitudes necessary to be an engaged, robust, 21st century citizen, capable of shaping our future.

The 1:1 iPad program is part of our long term plan to engage students in learning. iPads will be used as an explicit learning tool to do the following:

Develop the ability of students to become ‘ICT literate’ by being able to transfer knowledge and skills and apply it to new technologies.

Explore creative tools for showcasing the learning styles of students.

Communicate within and beyond the school as part of an interactive approach to learning.

Encourage a connectedness between home and school and more broadly to support learning for students and families.

eSmart

eSmart is an initiative of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national charity committed to protecting children from violence. Cyberbullying, sexual predation, identity theft and accessing and sending inappropriate images and content are some of the real cybersafety risks facing young people today.

“An eSmart school is a school where the smart, safe and responsible use of information and communications technology is a cultural norm. Students, teachers and the wider school community are equipped to embrace the best these technologies can offer, while being savvy about the pitfalls.

Over the past two decades, our lives have been transformed by a digital revolution, opening up a world of possibilities.
Children are the greatest beneficiaries of the digital era and are learning to navigate the online world at a younger and younger age. We need to ensure our communities are equipped to teach children, and the whole community, how to benefit from online technology whilst being savvy and prepared for the pitfalls - cyber bullying, scams, fraud, exposure to predators and inappropriate content.” - eSmart Website

Being an eSmart School
In eSmart schools, relationships are strong and supportive and learning outcomes are enhanced. Bullying and cyberbullying are therefore less likely to thrive.
Students are regularly involved in developing and delivering information on the smart, safe and responsible use of technologies to a variety of audiences and are taught a suite of social and emotional skills.

In the left drop down menu you will find the “Cyber Incident Reporting Tool” This is a valuable addition to our eSmart awareness and is provided for students to make a report regarding inappropriate content, cyber issues and incidents involving serious misconduct online.